Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Tenth Part) In Angle-Saxon countries, above all in America, suicide pact has a more complex connotation. The most frequent is the one of a suicide pact among adolescents.
Suicides ( Le Mal de Vivre Ninth Part) When the extended suicide of men involves their children the “cause” is very often the separation from their wife. A person, particularly selfish and devoid of moral sense and therefore not very prone to depression, can easily survive being left by his wife only by killing her or his children as a punishment without committing suicide, so the true cause of an extended suicide isn’t abandonment but a latent depression.
SUICIDES (Le Mal de vivre Eighth Part) Tiziano-Vecellio-Lucretia-Suicide Suicides for love are quite different. They are carried out mostly by adolescents who cannot accept the infidelity of their partner or the decision of breaking off a relationship. Sometimes it’s enough a trivial quarrel, sometimes the breaking off a relationship.
Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Seventh Part) Without you I can’t live any longer If it were like that anyone who has been abandoned or has lost, somehow, a beloved person, should automatically die. Actually, sometimes this happens: the natural death of one of the two partners in a couple is followed, very soon, by the one of the other when it may even be contemporaneous, anyway they are very rare cases.
Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Sixth Part) Like in all epidemics, suicide is contagious. Besides a real imitation, a suicide stimulates a kind of admiration for the person who commits it, as if the suicide were a hero. According to our usual opinion it is as if collective unconscious, aware of the big danger implied in overpopulation, should perceive the act of the suicide which simply remove a figure from the calculation of human population like a religious or heroic deed.
